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, A. M. SPAETH BOX WASHING APPARATUS Filed July l5 1922 l! l I i! ilu f Uli be/WW www d Patented Aug. 21, 1923.

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Application led July 15y 1922. Serial No. 575,422.

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Beit known that I, ADAM M. Sranrrr, a

vcitizen of the United States, and resident of West Bend, in the county of'llVashington and State of TWisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Box- `WashingApparatus; and' I do lhereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof. j

My invention relates to washing apparatus and it especially refers to means for washing skeleton boxes or crates which are usedV as containers for bottles. j

An object of my invention is to provide a simple type of washing machine which can be operated in any bottling worksl at a. small cost, the device as a whole being capable of meeting the demands of both a small plant or a large plant, depending upon the length of the unit.

Another object of my invention is to provide a washer, which is extremely cheap in its manufacture, to meet all demands, and which washer can be manipulated by a single operator.

With the above and other objects in view my invention consists in certain peculiarities in construction and combination of parts, as will be hereinafter set forth and described with reference to the accompanying illustrations and subsequently, claimed.

In the drawings z- Y Figure 1 represents a plan view of a washer embodying the features of my invention. j l

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same, the section being indicated' by line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a cross section of the machine, the section being indicated by line 3-3 of Figure 2, and v Figure 4 is an end view of said machine, the same being taken looking toward the feedend of the device to particularly illustrate the fluid distributing pipe connections.

Referring by characters to the drawings, l represents a skeleton frame or bed, having longitudinal sills 2, lupon which are mounted longitudinally disposed channel irons 3. The inner flanges of the channel irons 3 form guides for boxes or crates A, whereby the same are held against lateral play when they are manually fed through the washing machine, it being understood that any conveyor mechanism for mechanically conveying such .boxes can be utilized.

The boxes, inV their travel, are supported by a group of transversely disposed rollers 5, which rollers are journaled in boxes 5", and are secured to the inner lower face of the channel iron 3, it being observed' that by this arrangement the journals and their boxes are encased or protected against moisture, due to the fact that the upper flanges of the channel irons project thereover and form shedding surfaces.

Mounted upon the frame, directly under the rollers, are a series of longitudinally disposed spaced' fluid.. pipes 6, which pipes are provided with upstanding discharge nipples 6, and are preferably staggered withv rel-ation to each other, whereby an even distribution .of fluid discharged from the'group of pipesis had. The nozzles terminate upon a plane slightly below the upper surface of the box guide rollers 5.

The framell is provided with a metallic catch basin 7 in the form of `an inverted cone, the bell mouth of which is disposed under the pipe series 6, whereby discharge from said pipes will be collected and delivered to a conduit 7 at the bottom of the catch basin, and this conduit may lead to a sewer.

The group of fluid discharge-pipes 6 are connected to one leg 8 of a looped mixing head, the opposite leg 8 of said head being connected by a branch fluid delivery pipe 9. This branch pipe 9 is in turn connected to a steam supply pipe 10 and a water supply pipe 10,which pipes are positioned approximately parallel to a point near the mixing point and lead from a suitable source of supply. The pipes 10 and 10 have fixed thereto a bracket 11 carrying a detent 12, to which is pivoted an actuating lever 13. The lever 13 in turn is connected by a link 13 to arms 14.-14 of valves 15-15, which control the fluid pipes, there being other cut-olf valves 16-16 in said fluid pipes for permanently checking or opening the supply of fluid to the system.

The cut-off valves 16-16 can be regulated to determine the proportions of steam and water to be ultimately mixed and discharged from the group of pipes 6. The valves 15-l5 are set with relation to their actuating arms, whereby when said valves are moved a predetermined dist-ance, a proper volume of water and steam is admitted to the mixing head through the pipe 9. Hence, it will be seen that when it is desired to operate thermachine, one or more boxesV may be manually slid upon the run-way, comprisingV the group oi' rollers, and the same operator can, by manipulating the lever 13, cause the Washing mixture to be directed Vin the desired quantities to the group ot problem solved being that the device as a Whole is simple in construction and can be operated by anyone unskilled in the art of mechanics.

I claim l. A box Washing apparatuscomprising a bed, a grid of parallel Water pipes carried thereby and having upright jet nozzles at intervals, a loop-.shaped header whereof one member is connected With said pipes andthe second member is connected byl pipes with the first, and regulable means for feeding' Water and steam to said second member; combined with a box support comprising side bars located in a plane above said grid,

and rollers connecting said bars and spaced above said nozzles.

2. A box Washing apparatus comprising a bed, a plurality of pipes supported upon the same and having upstanding jet nozzles, a header connecting said pipes, and regulable means for feeding a Washing liquid to said header; combined with a pair of angle irons supported by the bed above the plane ot said pipes, their upright flange constituting guides Vfor the boxes and their horizontal flanges being,r inturned, bearings on the latter, and cross rollerswvhose trunnions are` journaled insaid bearings. j Y Y 3. In a box Washing` apparatus comprising a traine, a series ot longitudinally disy posed pipes supported upon the same having upstanding'jets, .a gang of box Areceivingr transversely disposed rollers mounted above the pipe `jets; the combination of a fluid mixingr apparatus including a iuid mixing the steam and Water pipes, whereby they;

may be simultaneously actuated, and other valve control means above the last mentioned valve for independently regulating the quany tity of fluid passing throughV each of the pipes. l

In testimony that I claim the foregoing have hereunto set my hand atWest Bend, Vin

the county of Washington and `State of Wisconsin.

ADAM M. srnnrn. 

